WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SG/N/10/JOR/7/Suppl.1 
G/SG/N/11/JOR/3/Suppl.1 18 March 2010 
 
(10-1449) 
Committee on Safeguards Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12.1(C) 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
JORDAN 
 
(Ceramic Tiles)
 
 
Supplement  
 
  The following communication, dated 12 March 2010, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Jordan.    
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  The Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom  of Jordan to the United Nations Office 
and other International Organiza tions in Geneva presents its compliments to the World Trade 
Organization / Committee on Safeguards, and furthe r to its note (ref. No:  MJ/WT/JOR/23/1548, and 
the document G/SG/N/10/JOR/7 dated 22 July 2009) has the honour to forward the enclosed decision 
by the Minister of Industry and Trade on the imports of Ceramic Tiles.     The decision by the Minister is dated 9 March 2010.  
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  In accordance with Article 21 (a) of th e National Production Protection Law No. 21/2004, 
I hereby decide the following regarding petition no. 2/SM/2008:    
 Imposing a safeguard measure on the imports  of Ceramic Tiles provided for under tariff 
headings of 6907.909 and 6908.909,  in addition to the applied tariff duty, a specific surcharge of 
0.75 Jordanian Dinar (JD) per square meter for a period of three years less one day and subject to annual liberalization of 0.25 JD.    
 The decision includes the imports from all count ries regardless of their origin with the 
exception of the developing countries whose names are in the list attached to this decision in 
accordance with the Agreement on Safe guards of the WTO.  The list h as to be reviewed and adjusted 
annually.     
Minister of Industry and Trade 
Eng. Amer Hadidi G/SG/N/10/JOR/7/Suppl.1 
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  List of developing countries to which the measure is not applied under Article 9  
of the Agreement on Safeguards 
 
Afghanistan Albania Antigua and Barbuda 
Angola Argentina Algeria 
American Samoa Anguilla Armenia 
Aruba Azerbaijan Barbados 
Bangladesh Burkina Faso Bahrain Kingdom of 
Burundi Benin Belarus 
Brunei Darussalam Bolivia Brazil 
Bahamas Bhutan Botswana 
Belize Bermuda Buvet Island 
British Virgin Islands British Indian O cean Territory Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Central African Republic Congo Côte d'Ivoire 
Cameroon Cambodia Chad 
Colombia Costa Rica Cuba 
Cape Verde Cayman Islands Chile 
Chinese Taipei Christmas Islands Cocos Islands 
Cook Islands Comoros Croatia 
Djibouti Democratic Republic of Congo Dominica 
Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador 
El Salvador Eritrea Equatorial Guinea  
Ethiopia Fiji Federated States of Micronesia 
Falkland Islands French Polynesia French Southern Territories 
Former Yugoslav Republic of 
Macedonia (FYROM)  Gabon  Grenada 
Ghana The Gambia  Georgia  
Greenland Guinea Guatemala 
Guinea-Bissau Guyana Gibraltar 
Guam Honduras Haiti 
Heard Island and McDonald 
Islands Hong Kong, china India 
Indonesia  Iraq Iran 
Israel Jamaica Kazakhstan 
Kenya Kiribati Korea, Democratic Republic 
Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic Laos PDR 
Latvia Lebanon Lithuania  
Liberia Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
Madagascar Marshall Islands Mali 
Malaysia Moldova Mongolia 
Mauritania Mauritius Maldives 
Malawi Midway Is. Micronesia, Fed Sts 
Martinique Mozambique Macao 
Mayotte Myanmar Mexico 
Montserrat Morocco Namibia 
Niger Nigeria Nicaragua 
Nepal Nauru  Netherlands Antilles 
New Caledonia Niue Island Norfolk Island 
Northern Mariana Islands Oman Qatar 
Palestinian National Authority Panama Peru 
Papua New Guinea  Philippines Pakistan 
Palau Paraguay Pitcairn 
Reunion Russian Federation Rwanda 
Samoa Saudi Arabia Saint Lucia  G/SG/N/10/JOR/7/Suppl.1 
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  Serbia & Montenegro St Kitts and Nevis St Vincent 
Solomon Islands Seychelles Sudan 
Sierra Leone Singapore Sri Lanka 
Senegal Somalia South Africa 
Suriname Sao Tomé and Principe Swaziland 
South Georgia and South 
Sandwich Islands Slovenia  Slovakia 
St Helena and dependencies St Pierre and Miquelon Tajikistan 
Thailand Togo Tunisia 
Turkey Tonga Trinidad and Tobago 
Turkmenistan Tuvalu Tanzania 
Tokelau Turks and Caicos Islands Ukraine 
United States Minor outlying 
islands Uganda Uruguay  
Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam 
Venezuela  Virgin Islands of US Wallis and Futuna Islands 
Wake Is Yemen Yugoslavia, Fed.Rep 
Zambia  Zimbabwe  
 
 
 
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